Acute appendicitis on abdominal MR images: Training readers to improve diagnostic accuracy

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 455-463

  Leeuwenburgh, Marjolein M N ^a   Wiarda, Bart M ^b   Bipat, Shandra ^a   Nio, C Yung ^a   Bollen, Thomas L ^c   Kardux, J Joost ^d   Jensch, Sebastiaan ^e   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a   Boermeester, Marja A ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Medical Centre Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^c ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

^e ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTERITIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CYST; OVARY TORSION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIOLOGIST EDUCATION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAFF TRAINING; TUBOOVARIAN ABSCESS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864347988     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111896     Document Type: Article

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